Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦
@kytola.bsky.social
Former Economics PhD @ UTAustin
Current Assistant Professor @ Cornell
Industrial organization, Housing, Public Policy, and occasionally other personal interests like cycling and film
https://www.laurikytomaa.com/
Current Assistant Professor @ Cornell
Industrial organization, Housing, Public Policy, and occasionally other personal interests like cycling and film
https://www.laurikytomaa.com/
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦
🚨New predoc positions!🚨
Join @alexbartik.bsky.social and me to work on developing LLM tools to analyze zoning regulations and their impacts on housing affordability.
One position starting at the "normal" cycle next year, and another ASAP.
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
Join @alexbartik.bsky.social and me to work on developing LLM tools to analyze zoning regulations and their impacts on housing affordability.
One position starting at the "normal" cycle next year, and another ASAP.
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
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October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🚨New predoc positions!🚨
Join @alexbartik.bsky.social and me to work on developing LLM tools to analyze zoning regulations and their impacts on housing affordability.
One position starting at the "normal" cycle next year, and another ASAP.
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
Join @alexbartik.bsky.social and me to work on developing LLM tools to analyze zoning regulations and their impacts on housing affordability.
One position starting at the "normal" cycle next year, and another ASAP.
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
Zoning enters the debate on immigration enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
To Fight ICE, Portland’s Leaders Turn to What They Know Best: Zoning
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Zoning enters the debate on immigration enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
Worth constantly emphasizing the regressive nature of tariffs.
Link1: www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...
Link 2: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...
Link1: www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...
Link 2: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...
Trump tariffs would hit lower-income Americans hardest
Tariffs are another blow to people struggling with higher prices.
www.axios.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Worth constantly emphasizing the regressive nature of tariffs.
Link1: www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...
Link 2: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...
Link1: www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...
Link 2: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...
I appreciate The Cornell Daily Sun highlighting local market power, and its potential influences on affordability! There's an industrial organization project in here somewhere.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
POGGI | Ithaca Is Monopolized
In her column, Julia Poggi urges readers to confront tough questions: Who benefits from Ithaca’s monopolies? Who’s left out? To protect the Ithaca we love — gorges, granola, grassroots — we must deman...
www.cornellsun.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I appreciate The Cornell Daily Sun highlighting local market power, and its potential influences on affordability! There's an industrial organization project in here somewhere.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
Higher education has also historically been a major export for the U.S. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Trump’s Trade Math Ignores a Major Export: American Services
Trade wars are heightening overseas risk for U.S. companies. “When you generate bad will, it’s harder to sell stuff.”
www.wsj.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Higher education has also historically been a major export for the U.S. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦
PhD students interested in urban: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23.
Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists.
urbaneconomics.org/workshops/su...
Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists.
urbaneconomics.org/workshops/su...
March 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
PhD students interested in urban: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23.
Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists.
urbaneconomics.org/workshops/su...
Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists.
urbaneconomics.org/workshops/su...
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦
The MIT Urban Economics Lab is hiring!! #EconSky
My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate!
Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!
My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate!
Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!
Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate
MIT - Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139
careers.peopleclick.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The MIT Urban Economics Lab is hiring!! #EconSky
My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate!
Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!
My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate!
Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!
A write-up of how I have leveraged the National Science Foundation's Access program for academic computing resources! access-ci.org/using-hpc-to...
Using HPC to Improve the Mortgage Industry - Access
NSF ACCESS resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center are central to a study into mortgage relief failures during the U.S. foreclosure crisis.
access-ci.org
March 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A write-up of how I have leveraged the National Science Foundation's Access program for academic computing resources! access-ci.org/using-hpc-to...
This release isn't too new, but let's keep archiving those public datasets! Nice repository of information.
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
lil.law.harvard.edu
March 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This release isn't too new, but let's keep archiving those public datasets! Nice repository of information.
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
Cornell students - I'm hiring someone to help me archive and organize Federal data and to do some preliminary data exploration. This data will relate most to urban policy, household finance, and natural disasters.
Check out my job posting on Workday:
www.myworkday.com/cornell/d/in...
Check out my job posting on Workday:
www.myworkday.com/cornell/d/in...
www.myworkday.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Cornell students - I'm hiring someone to help me archive and organize Federal data and to do some preliminary data exploration. This data will relate most to urban policy, household finance, and natural disasters.
Check out my job posting on Workday:
www.myworkday.com/cornell/d/in...
Check out my job posting on Workday:
www.myworkday.com/cornell/d/in...
Get your signature on this open letter to Senate and House leadership to express opposition to removal of public federal data. Research relies on access to information!
copafs.org/copafs-sign-...
copafs.org/copafs-sign-...
COPAFS Sign-on Letter to Protect Public Data – Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
copafs.org
February 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Get your signature on this open letter to Senate and House leadership to express opposition to removal of public federal data. Research relies on access to information!
copafs.org/copafs-sign-...
copafs.org/copafs-sign-...
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We are seeing some impact on reproducibility efforts with the transition to the new US administration. For now, I suggest that you make backups of any data that required you to actively interact with the Federal government, as there may be a delay in response times.... #openscience
February 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We are seeing some impact on reproducibility efforts with the transition to the new US administration. For now, I suggest that you make backups of any data that required you to actively interact with the Federal government, as there may be a delay in response times.... #openscience
Presenting my revised work on the effects of short-term housing regulation on housing affordability in the City of San Francisco — in the city of focus! #ASSA2025
January 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Presenting my revised work on the effects of short-term housing regulation on housing affordability in the City of San Francisco — in the city of focus! #ASSA2025
Crack downs on short-term rents don't always succeed in their stated policy objectives, and the design of well intended regulation continues to be a challenge. The New York story looks no different.
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
New York Made Airbnbs Harder to Find. Now It’s Reconsidering.
A bill introduced to the City Council could ease the strict regulations on short-term rentals.
www.wsj.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Crack downs on short-term rents don't always succeed in their stated policy objectives, and the design of well intended regulation continues to be a challenge. The New York story looks no different.
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
Day 2 visiting @newyorkfed.bsky.social! Working with @leeseltzer.bsky.social on a new project relating to evictions and foreclosure and looking forward to meeting with a talented group of RAs.
December 4, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Day 2 visiting @newyorkfed.bsky.social! Working with @leeseltzer.bsky.social on a new project relating to evictions and foreclosure and looking forward to meeting with a talented group of RAs.
This Thanksgiving I'm thankful for the NSF's Access program for advanced computing resources! Check it out whether you need CPUs or GPUs. access-ci.org.
Home - Access
Following its highly successful Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is excited to introduce new advances in innovative cyberinf...
access-ci.org
November 28, 2024 at 4:35 PM
This Thanksgiving I'm thankful for the NSF's Access program for advanced computing resources! Check it out whether you need CPUs or GPUs. access-ci.org.
November 13, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting the 2024 Cornell Real Estate Symposium with my colleagues, Dragana Cvijanović and Sean Flynn.
Thanks to Caitlin Gorback, Jacob Sagi, @arpitrage.bsky.social, Lu Han, Erica Jiang, and Kris Gerardi for sharing their fantastic work in #realestate #urbaneconomics
Thanks to Caitlin Gorback, Jacob Sagi, @arpitrage.bsky.social, Lu Han, Erica Jiang, and Kris Gerardi for sharing their fantastic work in #realestate #urbaneconomics
September 9, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting the 2024 Cornell Real Estate Symposium with my colleagues, Dragana Cvijanović and Sean Flynn.
Thanks to Caitlin Gorback, Jacob Sagi, @arpitrage.bsky.social, Lu Han, Erica Jiang, and Kris Gerardi for sharing their fantastic work in #realestate #urbaneconomics
Thanks to Caitlin Gorback, Jacob Sagi, @arpitrage.bsky.social, Lu Han, Erica Jiang, and Kris Gerardi for sharing their fantastic work in #realestate #urbaneconomics
First two weeks of lectures down as instructor! My consulting PowerPoint experience is coming in super handy, never had such a sustained need to produce slides before. 🥵
February 1, 2024 at 9:45 PM
First two weeks of lectures down as instructor! My consulting PowerPoint experience is coming in super handy, never had such a sustained need to produce slides before. 🥵
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦
Buying a house was hard before the pandemic. Somehow, it keeps getting harder. Could the U.S.'s strange mortgage market be to blame?
My story on how the dominance of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is creating a housing market of haves and have-nots:
#EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/b...
My story on how the dominance of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is creating a housing market of haves and have-nots:
#EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/b...
November 19, 2023 at 3:54 PM
Buying a house was hard before the pandemic. Somehow, it keeps getting harder. Could the U.S.'s strange mortgage market be to blame?
My story on how the dominance of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is creating a housing market of haves and have-nots:
#EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/b...
My story on how the dominance of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is creating a housing market of haves and have-nots:
#EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/b...
I think economists are moving here? Sadly it doesn't seem like my non-academic interests have migrated as well.
November 19, 2023 at 9:41 PM
I think economists are moving here? Sadly it doesn't seem like my non-academic interests have migrated as well.